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Preventing Mental Illness: Community Connection Matters
When we talk about mental health, our ability to flourish, we are often really talking about two different things: mental ill-health and mental illness. Understanding [...]
How to Improve Mental Health: Daily Habits & Strategies
We often consider mental health to be simply the absence of illness or distress, but it’s much more. It includes our emotional, cognitive, and social [...]
Why Is Mental Health Important? A Foundation for Flourishing
In our previous exploration of what mental health truly means, we discovered that it exists on a spectrum from languishing to flourishing. It is much [...]
What Is Mental Health? And Why It is More Than You Think
When someone asks about your health, you probably think about your physical wellbeing first. But what about your mental health? This invisible aspect of our [...]
Psychoeducational Groups: Topics, Examples & Tools
From school settings to hospital units, psychoeducational groups have emerged as one of the most adaptable and impactful interventions in mental health and wellness work. [...]
Therapy Homework: How to Engage Clients Between Sessions
Therapy can be life-changing. But for many of us, 50 minutes a week may not be enough to create deep, sustainable change. As a trauma [...]
How to Design a Hopeful Digital Environment
Like everyone else, I often feel like I’m facing a relentless storm of digital information. Excessive emails, social media, and instant messaging leave us overwhelmed [...]
How to Create Your Signature Coaching Program: 4 Templates
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve likely noticed the explosion of coaching programs being promoted across social media. As more people leave their [...]
Hope Theory: How Pathways Thinking Can Help Your Clients
Watching the news, I sometimes feel hopeless about how humans treat one another and the environment we share. And yet, when I step into the [...]
Overcome Social Media Addiction With Small Daily Tweaks
Social media is an integral part of my everyday life. It’s how I stay connected, enjoy entertainment, find new information, and unwind. And if you’ve [...]